Iron bedstead.



UNITED' STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RADU TATTU, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IRON BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,833, dated February 20, 1900. Application filed July 11, 1899. Serial No. 723,521. (No model.)

To all whom it nea/y concern:

Be it known that I, RADU TATTU, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of'Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Iron Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to beds, and particularly to that class which are constructed of metal.

The object of the invention is to produce a novel fastening means for the side or end rails and the corner-posts; and the invention consists in certain details Y of construction and combination of parts, to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings, forniing part of this specification, whereinlike characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure l is a view in perspective of a fragment of a bed-post having a projecting member formed therewith. Fig. 2 shows a fragment of a side rail having a socket in its end to interlock with the projection on Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of apostwith side and end rails attached. Fig. 4 is a perspective viewshowingaslightly-modified construction. Fig. 5 illustrates the connection attached to a side rail for interlocking with the device shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 illustrates the side rail applied and the end rail in place.

In the drawings, P denotes the corner-posts for a bed, and A the conical enlargements, said enlargements having integral extensions. The railsY are the same, whether used on the sides or end, but those for the ends having conical socketsCto receive the enlargements of the posts, the said ends being cut awayto receive the projections (to be hereinafter referred to) formed on the enlargements of the posts, thus forming a brace through the engagement of the parts, as illustrated.

The enlargement A (shown in Figs. 1 and 3) is provided with an extension F, terminating in conical supports. The rail is provided with terminals G, having sockets to receive' the supports, and the parts are assembled as shown in Fig. 3. In Fig. l the construction is the same, with the exception that the extension H is straight instead of curved, while the terminal I of the rail is sockete'd to receive the support, as shown in Fig. 6.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a bed, the posts having conical enlargements with integral extensions, members on the ends of the extensions interlocking with the ends of the side rails, and end rails having sockets fitting on the enlargements of the posts and having cut-away portions to receive the extensions of the enlargements, substantially as described.

2.l In a bed, posts having conical enlargements, projections formed with the enlargements, side rails having sockets interlocking with the ends of the projections, and end rails with sockets tting on the enlargements and cut away to receive the projections of the enlargements which act as keys,l substantially as described.

'RADU TATTU. LL. s]

Witnesses CoNsTANTIN MARINESCU, GUsTAv SCHULZE. 

